I Love You More and More

Toddler-PreS—Mama Bear takes her cub on a full day of adventure with vivid cut-paper collage to set the scenes. With the sun high in a grove of birch trees, they travel to the mountains, river, and waterfall while Mama Bear explains how much she loves her baby bear: "I love you more than trees love to change with every season." Her love grows and grows until at the end of the day, with stars in the sky, she says, "I love you, baby, more and more with every precious day." The illustrations depict the bears in delightful woodland scenes, surrounded by an array of forest animals. Each spread sports half of a rhyming couplet, the second half of which is supplied with a page turn. They flow smoothly despite an occasional stumble in the rhythm. The book is reminiscent of Sam McBratney's Guess How Much I Love You, but the titles are not necessarily read-alikes.